Good afternoon everyone. It is almost hard to believe it is November already. Our class had a wonderful time celebrating Halloween on Friday with lots of games and activities to take part in. The children looked fantastic in their costumes!
Thank you to everyone who returned their posters to school last week. A number of the school’s efforts have been displayed in Morrison’s supermarket.
Reading homework
In change to our prior routine, reading books will be issued on a Monday. I hope this will work well for your schedules. Our reading homework for this week is:
Book Bandits – Oceans
Page Pirates – Butterflies
Word Wizards – The Fox Twins
Sound stars – please check your child’s bag for homework
If anyone has issues accessing bug club at home please let me know and I will send home paper copies of books where I can and provide your child the opportunity to complete the bugs within the books in class.
Spelling homework
This week our class is learning the sounds ow (as in snow). Below you will find a new grid from which your child can choose activities to practice this sound. I will provide the same spelling grid for the whole of this month along with the spelling words and common words for them to practice this week. Many of these activities can be done using the magnetic boards the children were given last year. If you would to provide your child with further challenge, ask them to make other words they can think of using the ow sound.
Last week, I gave some children home flashcards with phonemes we have previously learned and words that they may be having difficulty with reading or spelling. It would be beneficial to the children who have these to practise these with a grown up as often as they can.
Numeracy homework
This week, East Ayrshire schools are taking part in a Sumdog challenge. The class have their log in details in the front of their diaries. There are prizes available for winning classes. I will mention it to the children at school.
In class we are working on addition to 20. We are spending some time this week looking at the different ways we can make the 11, 12, 13 and 14 using two numbers. To support your child to develop this skill, you may wish to ask them to bring you a number of objects (small toys work well for this) and then ask them to show you different ways they can split them into two groups while maintaining the same total number (e.g. if they have a group of 10 and a group of 1 they would have 11, similarly if they have a group of 2 and a group of 9 they would still have 11). I hope that makes sense!
The children can get some more practise using top marks on the link below.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
Thank you for your continued support of our class. We have achieved some great learning so far and have lots more to come.
Mrs MacNee
